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The Narendra Modi government's sudden demonetization of `500 and `1,000 notes in November 2016 failed to put a dent in the black economy but caused untold hardship to hundreds of millions of Indians...

Unfettered WingsAuthor: Sana MunirPublisher: Rupa PublicationsPublication Date: May 23, 2018Number of Pages: 226 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 935304054XISBN-13: 9789353040543

Comprising 99 stories, essays, extracts, poems and articles (one for each year of his life), the book is divided into fifteen sections, each one corresponding to a genre that he excelled in. Family...

Passionate and insightful, this book is a must buy for cinema buffs and women.' - Bhavna Somayya, film critic and journalistAuthor: Nalini ShivkumarPublisher: Rupa PublicationsPublication Date: Jan...

A wildly original and humorous account of growing up as an Indian woman. Unladylike is a memoir that spans four decades of the author's life. From stories about a childhood spent wishing she could...

Urban Shots: Down the Road is collection of short stories and essays revolving around campus life. It captures the world of classrooms and teachers, but equally it engages with crushes and bullies;...

Urban Shots: Love CollectionAuthor: Sneh ThakurPublisher: Rupa PublicationsPublication Date: May 01, 2017Number of Pages: 262 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 8129137127ISBN-13:...

No other bandit in recent times has captured the public's imagination as much as Koose Muniswamy Veerappan. Be it his trademark moustache, stories of his daring escapades or his ruthless massacre of...

No other bandit in recent times has captured the public's imagination as much as Koose Muniswamy Veerappan. Be it his trademark moustache, stories of his daring escapades or his ruthless massacre of...

Author: P KhurranaPublisher: Rupa PublicationsPublication Date: Feb 05, 2021Number of Pages: 166 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 9390260183ISBN-13: 9789390260188

Nothing prepared Murray Laurence for India when he first travelled through the country in the 1970s. His first impressions were of its 'surpassing weirdness' but it soon cast a spell on him and for...

Elections have always been festive occasions in liberal democracies, and India is no exception. Media becomes one of the most important players in elections because of its power of reach and...

Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given only a few months to live, Anand, a budding Delhi lawyer, who is obsessed with his own ambition and the politics of his workplace, thinks his life has hit...

Where Borders Bleed is a keenly observed and anecdotal account of a factious landscape that has long engaged global attention the Indo Pak region. Covering almost seventy years of conflict, it...

But these things haven't happened before. It's August 1947, the night before India's independence. It is also the night before Pakistan's creation and the brutal partition of the two countries. Asha,...

The question of which of us is Aryan is one of the most contentious in India today. In this eye-opening book, scholars and experts critically examine the Aryan issue by analysing history, genetics,...

One by one the clocks of the town struck midnight, when the sounds died away the deep silence of windless night fell again over everything...' A great imagination makes for terrific ghost...

Time passes and yet it doesn't pass; people come and go, the mountains remain. Mountains are permanent things. They are stubborn, they refuse to move...no matter how hard they try, humans cannot...

Provocative, insightful, and passionately argued, this book attempts to bring some perspective to an increasingly polarized debate on the crisis of liberalism among Indian Muslims. It raises some...

When the light came on again, she had vanished.Who had kissed me in the dark?As no one came forward to admit to the deed, I could only make wild guesses.A mysterious kiss from a stranger, a sudden...

Who Wants to Marry a Mamma's Boy and Other Stories is an engaging collection of short stories by columnist and award-winning writer Manjula Pal. She strings together the emotional journeys of a...

Close to 150 years after he was born, how relevant is Mahatma Gandhi? In our country, he is revered as the Father of the Nation; his face still adorns currency notes, postage stamps and government...

In Why I Am a Hindu, one of India's finest public intellectuals gives us a profound book about one of the world's oldest and greatest religions. Starting with a close examination of his own belief in...

Corruption in India today is pervasive, omnipresent, and diverse, covering every branch of the Indian state and key sectors of the economy. Far from declining and fading away, as predicted, with...

Winning At Work: Unleashing The Power Of Confidence And Self-DisciplineAuthor: Anu Kaushal ManhotraPublisher: Rupa PublicationsPublication Date: Apr 05, 2021Number of Pages: 167 pagesLanguage:...

Laying out her winning traits and abilities, this book chronicles Saina Nehwal's journey from entering the badminton court to winning the coveted Olympic medal. Saina is not the flamboyant kind, but...

Thousands of years ago, one of the shrewdest economists, thinker and philosopher Chanakya, wrote a policy manual that helped groom Chandragupta Maurya to power. This treatise, called Chanakya Neeti,...

Women Warriors in Indian History explores the life of ten Indian women warriors as narrated by other historical characters. While Italian traveller Marco Polo recounts the story of his contemporary...

When he is forced to return, it sets Ananya on a collision course with fate and she chooses desire over duty to embark on an affair with Arnav.Author: Shilpa SurajPublisher: Rupa...

This is the story of the most enigmatic man of the era; the man who, despite being a mortal, was superhuman in every way. Krishna was a visionary who could see into the future, and tried in his own...